Brief Life History of Joseph Woodrow
When Joseph Woodrow Gafford was born on 21 November 1914, in Alabama, United States, his father, Ester Dee Gafford, was 17 and his mother, Vella Magalene Phelps, was 14. He married Thelma Earline Little on 23 October 1937, in Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in United States in 1949 and Election Precinct 12 Greenville, Butler, Alabama, United States in 1950. He died on 23 June 1986, at the age of 71, and was buried in Sunrise Cemetery, Greenville, Butler, Alabama, United States.
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- J W Gafford, "United States 1950 Census"
- J Woodrow Gafford, "Alabama County Marriages, 1809-1950"
- Joseph Woodrow Gafford, "Find A Grave Index"
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1916 · The First woman elected into the US Congress
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1917
U.S. intervenes in World War I, rejects membership of League of Nations.
1935 · The FBI is Established
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Name Meaning
English (southeastern): assimilated form of Gatford, a name of various origins. In Sussex and Surrey it is perhaps a variant of the habitational name Catford from a place so called in Somerset. Gatford is also from the habitational names Gateford (in Worksop, Nottinghamshire) or Gateforth (near Selby, Yorkshire), both formed with Old English gāt ‘goat’ + ford ‘ford’, influenced by Old Norse geit ‘goat’.
Probably also an altered form of German Gaffert: habitational name from Gaffert near Köslin, Brandenburg, or from a personal name formed with Middle High German gate ‘fellow, companion’. The surname Gaffert is very rare in Germany.
English: perhaps an altered form of Gatewood , an occupational name for a ‘goatherd’ (Middle English gate-werde, Old English gātweard) or for a ‘gate keeper’ (Middle English gateward, Old English ʒeatweard, dialect gātward).
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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